NATO 60th Anniversary Logo
http://cameraluc.blogspot.com/2009/08/nato-60th-anniversary-non-logo.html
Now, what does a flimsy spiral represent? In fact, the 60th anniversary logo looks like some kind of wiring had sprung loose from the insides of a machine. Are the NATO designers envisioning the uncoiling of this spiral into a distant, happy, warless future? Close.
I often see this kind of whimsy, sloppy spiral in feminist goddess artwork. Gaia followers describe the spiral as:
[A]n ancient symbol of the goddess, the womb, fertility, feminine serpent forces, continual change, and the evolution of the universe.
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Slipshod Gaia spiral jewellery
The spiral is actually of ancient mathematical interest. The Archimedean spiral, which these floppy pagan female symbols resemble, is formed with precision to produce a spiral with equal distance between the turns.
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The precise Archimedean spiral
is described by the equation: r = a + bθ
So, what does the NATO 60th anniversary spiral resemble most, the Archimedean or the Gaian spiral? A floppy Gaia imitation, I’m afraid. Now, why does the military safe keeper of peace in Europe opt to celebrate its 60th anniversary with such a mediocre, and what appears to be ill-thought-out, design? But I think the design was quite deliberate.
The solid compass of the original design, with its precise purpose, is no longer valid. War is out, peace is in. Let’s be universal peacemakers, like the goddesses of yonder years, and engulf the earth with our good intentions. Let this spiral uncurl to reach the depths of the world and impart the message of peace, and not war.
This is the new mantra of the once militarily conceived NATO, now celebrating its 60th anniversary with its spiral goddesses.
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well its meant to be the “60″ but it sure as hell looks like a spiral and also as a sort of 666..the author of the above article has interpreted it in a new age way but it also can be seen as occultish in other ways..i tend to think a spiral considering what we know..
401
666 and while not perfect, a fibonacci.
thx squid..didnt think of fibonacci
I’m reading Campbell’s “Occidental Mythology” right now and it covers the early rise of western civiliztion. It was first mother goddess oriented, and then took on a male domination over over the feminine. In the feminine, which one of the last outwardly civilizations of this form was in Crete, but in many other regions, such as what is now known as Italy, this form happened too. In Italy it was absorbed by the rise of the Romans. What this former feminine civilizations incorporated was the king would be sacrificed every 8-12 years. This was to maintain renewal in the culture. The story of the Minotaur, which involved Crete and Greece, was a story about a king that avoided this ritual sacrificed and thereby the society became chaotic. The king was a tyrant and would not step down. Eventually the hero, who I believe if I remember such details correctly came from Greece and went to Crete to save the princess from her father who became the tyrant not only of the household but of the society of Crete (being king). The hero had to first kill the minotaur who was placed in the labriyth/maze with the hero. And then the hero found his way out of the chaos of the maze by a thread that was placed there somehow by the princess, the details of this part of the story escape me. But anyways, eventually the king steps down by the end of the story and the hero fulfilled his heroic deed.
What is significant is this same scenario played out in Italy and then the rise of Rome conquered this older mythic culture and replaced it with the male dominanted mythos.
This all connects to one of the recent stories about Stonehedge:
Campbell writes:
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“As among the Celts, the king may have been sacrificed at the expiration of a term of eight or twelve years. The magnitude of the tumuli of these kings and the luxury of the furnishings bear witness to a royal death cult, while the custom of the grove at Nemi, analyzed by Frazer in ‘The Golden Bough’, makes it almost certain that this cult retained to a late date the old rite of the regicide.
With the fall of the city of Veii to Rome in the year 396 B.C., the fate of Etruria was sealed. But though the military might and secular laws of the growing empire prevailed and the people of Etruria, in 88 B.C., were granted Roman citizenship, authority in priestly affairs nevertheless remained with the old Etruscan masters. As late as 408 A.D. Etruscan conjurers offered their advice and aid to the Romans…
… And so we pass, at last, from teh ancient to the modern world.”
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The veil of secularization takes hold but the underlying religious cults of old are still present but hidden by the phallic military and supposed secularization of governmental duties. Yet the priests of old were still giving out advice. Priests of the female mother goddess.
Lake Nemi in Italy is a rabbit hole with connections that date way back into the Caspian Sea, but take note of it’s continual significance up into modern times:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemi
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“In antiquity the area had no town, but the grove was the site of one of the most famous of Roman cults and temples: that of Diana Nemorensis, a study of which served as the seed for Sir James Frazer’s seminal work on the anthropology of religion, The Golden Bough…
Later on, possibly in connection with this cult (nothing substantial is known of the matter), Caligula built several very large and costly luxury barges for use on the lake. One ship was a shrine dedicated to ceremonies for the Egyptian Isis cult or the cult of Diana Nemorensis, designed to be towed, and the other was a pleasure boat with buildings on it. After Caligula’s overthrow, the boats were scuttled.
The ships were rediscovered during the Renaissance, when architect Leon Battista Alberti is reported to have attempted to raise the ships by roping them to buoyant barrels. While ingenious, this method proved unsuccessful, because of extensive rotting.
The boats were finally salvaged from 1929 to 1932 under orders of Mussolini. This was just one of many attempts to relate himself to the Roman Emperors of the past. The ships were exposed by lowering the lake level using underground canals that were dug by the ancient Romans. The excavation was led by Guido Ucelli and was reported in Le Nave di Nemi by Guido Ucelli (Rome, 1950).”
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I came across reports that people, especially those of the high ranking military even by U.S. troops, still go to this site (for ceremonies?). I will see if I can find these reports again. It’s been some months and one of the reports I came across was given by a wife of a high ranking military offical.
Stonehedge is part of this cult as it is of the old Celtic, Druid school. These latter connections, ie. military and Stonehedge, I did not go into detail upon, but maybe I will be able to show the connections better at a later time. So for now, the military, is hypothetical and based on an old memory. The Stonehedge connection I believe is a easier case to follow up on.
oh and are not the new age aspects of this related to the Age of Aquaris being Feminine? Undoubtedly there are people looking at the stars still and performing these rituals of old.
I found the link to the rituals at Lake Nemi and Stonehedge through another route… Crowley’s name pops up.
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First off, Diana ‘the mirror’ (as it is sometimes referred to) as the goddess honored at Lake Nemi (which is a goddess that in differing forms that was honored in many other places too).
Wiki says this about her:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_(mythology)
“In Roman mythology, Diana was the goddess of the hunt, being associated with wild animals and woodland, and also of the moon. In literature she was the equivalent of the Greek goddess Artemis, though in cult beliefs she was Italic, not Greek, in origin. Diana was worshiped in ancient Roman religion and is currently revered in Roman Neopaganism and Stregheria.”
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Still practiced today in these given accounts. I went to Stregheria and found this:
“Most notably, Stregheria honors a pantheon of deities, with a Moon Goddess and a Horned God regarded as central, as in Wicca. Also similar to Wicca, this core duotheistic pair of deities are regarded as divine lovers, and they may go by many different names, including: Uni and Tagni, Tana and Tanus, Diana and Dianus, Jana and Janus, and more. Practices include the celebration of seasonal holidays, ritual magic, and reverence for gods, ancestors and tradition-specific spirits. Stregheria itself has variant traditions, and individual practices may vary considerably.”
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So what’s the “Horned God” that is central to this cult? I clicked and found this:
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“In the neopagan religion of Wicca, the god is seen as the masculine side of divinity, being both equal and opposite to the Goddess. The Wiccan god himself can be represented in many forms, including as the Sun god, the Sacrificed god and the Vegetation god.
The pioneers of Wicca, and related forms of neopagan witchcraft, such as Gerald Gardner, Doreen Valiente and Robert Cochrane, all claimed that their religion was a continuation of the pagan religion of the Witch-Cult following historians who had purported the Witch-Cult’s existence, such as Jules Michelet and Margaret Murray. For Wiccans, the Horned God is “the personification of the life force energy in animals and the wild” and is associated with the wilderness, virility and the hunt. Doreen Valiente writes that the Horned God also carries the souls of the dead to the underworld.”
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The “Horned God” is the male personification of the goddess Diana as they shared the same attributes being gods of the wilderness and hunt. There’s usually a male-female side to the same kind of personification. But note, “The pioneers of Wicca, and related forms of neopagan witchcraft, such as Gerald Gardner, Doreen Valiente and Robert Cochrane…” All three if you go to their links met Crowley, Gardner wrote his Wicca books based on the writings of Crowley, which Valiente confronted Gardner on because she felt their Wicca ways should be rooted in the more ancient ways so Gardner let her re-write one of his books to include more of the ancient ways, those based on rituals honoring Diana, and such. Valiente went to Stonehedge with Gardner and this happened:
“On Midsummer 1953 Gardner invited Doreen again to Dafo’s house, and it was here that he initiated her into Wicca. The three of them then set off to Stonehenge (a place where Valiente had never before been), where they watched the Druids performing a ritual there. Gardner had lent a ritual sword he owned, and had collected from the museum on the Isle of Man, to the Druids, who placed it within the heelstone during rituals.”
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Gardner not only did this, met Crowley and was in frequent contact and initiated by Crowley into his cult, but also joined another secret society:
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“Gardner was intrigued, however, and joined the group running the theatre – the Corona Fellowship of Rosicrucians, an occult society based upon Rosicrucianism.”
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“Rosicrucianism (symbol: the Rose Cross) is the theology of a secret society of mystics, allegedly formed in late medieval Germany, holding a doctrine “built on esoteric truths of the ancient past”, which, “concealed from the average man, provide insight into nature, the physical universe and the spiritual realm.”"
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ok
princess diana was the rose wasnt she?
great research
crowley is nearly the most evil man of the 20th century
note the masonic floor in the dancing pic..diana had a rose named after her
thats some great stuff in there wilderness.the old sites are still used today for the same old rituals..like the diana crash and her isis connections and the place she died
I don’t know anything about diana’s crash and her isis connections, place she died, etc… any links?
The thing to remember is all of these sites and even symbols (well most not all I don’t know how the devil picture could be recognized as good), but these sites and symbols could be good or once used as good. But what gives up the evilness of these people is they tell everybody they worship Satan or are trying to conjure up demons. So they show their hand.
heres a link to rik clay and his thoughts..watch the whole thing..its fascinating..but go to 31:00 minute mark for diana
http://vodpod.com/watch/1589673-rik-clay-2012-transition-of-the-ages?pod=seeker401
cool, thanks.
have a merry christmas! My wife and I agreed to let our three year old son know that Santa Claus is only a story, and he doesn’t bring the gifts down the chimney. We told him we do and we put them under the tree. He’s freakin’ excited anyways cause he’s getting toys. What was interesting was the first reaction by the first people we told about this, they both said they same thing. I told my mother over the phone and see immediately before I almost didn’t complete what I was saying, she said, ‘what if he tells the other kids (nieces and nephews) about this’. he’ll ruin everything. And my wife told a friend of her’s at work and she again, right away my wife told me, said the same thing, ‘What if he tells my children this?’. The way we, my wife and I, saw this, since we had already thought it through, was ok, so we are supposed to lie to our son to keep your lies intact!
they both apologized, funny how they felt the need to, cause they really did jump on us at first. what’s my son care about a fantasy story. he wants the toys like any other kid. i think the story is more enjoyable for the adults more than the children but don’t get me wrong, when i was young i used to dream about santa coming down the chimney, but what I really couldn’t wait for were the toys.
also, the next day after I told my mother, i went over her house. she then told me how my one niece found out about santa not being real, she’s ten, and she cried and kept telling my mother, ‘why did everybody lie to me? why?’ She’s still afraid, near ten days latter, to tell her mother and father that she knows santa isn’t true. and she doesn’t want her grandmother, my mother, to tell them. she’s afraid. god the trust issues around a simple thing called santa claus. i’m planning on talking to her during christmas and trying to smooth that drama out.
well, merry christmas!!!
haha..merry christmas as well my friend..might have to do a story on the jolly old fellow
..but yeah its strange how we pepetuate that lie as a western society..there has to be a reason
Excellent blog. Keep up the good work exposing the darkness with light.
thanks lisa..we will keep exposing
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